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Smita Patil
Film actor · India · 1955–1986
Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.
The day, read honestly
Four of the ten placements whose signs are settled stand in Libra — the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Neptune. The placements whose signs could change with an unknown hour are not counted. A cluster that size becomes the section the rest of the chart plays around.
Positions at 12:00 civil time in Pune—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.
Where the Sun actually stood
The Sun's exact place is 23.1° Libra. That falls in the third decan, 20°–30°, sub-ruled by Mercury in the classical scheme — a air sign read through a cardinal season.
Closer to the ground
Mercury holds 15.9° Libra, Venus holds 5.3° Scorpio, Mars holds 2.4° Libra — in the old shorthand, a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste tuned to mood and undertow; drive that argues its way forward.
The angles that hold
Closest first: Mars to Uranus, a sextile with 0.3° of slack. A sextile is an offer rather than a given: available when it is reached for, quiet when it is not. Behind it, Neptune sextile Pluto at 0.3°, and Jupiter sextile Neptune at 1.8° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. Each angle here was measured at every hour of the civil day and held; whatever the missing clock said, this geometry was in it.
What the angles build
The Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.
The classical map
Four planets here sit in a sign the classical scheme scores. The Sun in Libra at 23.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; the Moon in Scorpio at 9.9° is in fall; Venus in Scorpio at 5.3° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Mars in Libra at 2.4° is in detriment. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.
The shape of the whole
Of the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day: 4 in air, 3 in water, 3 in fire by element, 6 fixed, 4 cardinal by modality. No settled placement falls in earth — an absence the tradition treats as information, not as a defect. Mercury was retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.
The Moon, and how far it can move
The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.3° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 9.9°.
Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes
- Source article
- Smita Patil · revision 1366035636
- Wikidata
- Q467960 · revision 2517870136
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
- Birth date
- 1955-10-17 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
- Birthplace
- Pune, India · Q1538
- Coordinates
- 18.5211, 73.8553 · from Pune
- Reference instant
- 1955-10-17T06:30:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
- Omitted
- Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
- Unknown-time range
- Moon travelled 12.35° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
- Engine
- astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
- Portrait
- None published · licence "GODL-India" is outside the accepted set (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA)
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